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The struggle to save the Soviet economy : Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR /

For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why did this happen? And what role did Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's economic reforms play in the country's dissolution? In this groundbreakin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, Chris (Research fellow) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, ©2016.
Colección:New Cold War history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the view from Tiananmen
  • Asian pivot: the roots of Soviet economic reform
  • Take off or leap forward?: Soviet assessments of China after Mao
  • Gorbachev's gamble: interest group politics and perestroika
  • Soviet industry, Sichuan style: Gorbachev's enterprise reforms
  • A Soviet Shenzhen?: copying China's special economic zones
  • Of subsidies and sovkhozes: restructuring Soviet agriculture
  • Fiscal crisis, the Tiananmen option, and the dissolution of the USSR
  • Conclusion: paths not taken?